The rock star reception of Pope Francis in the Americas was not lost on Barack Obama. Though the president falls short of the pontiff’s popularity, he still gets a high by pontificating from the bully pulpit. But don’t expect him to be as conciliatory and gentle as His Holiness. Obama takes extreme pleasure in rhetorically skewering the GOP. Almost like clockwork, the horrifying events in Roseburg, Oregon provided him with the perfect lead-in to some seriously sanctimonious sermonizing.   Rahm Emanuel raved that no crisis should go to waste. Obama does him one better by blaming all crises on the Republicans. So despite his distaste for White House press conferences, the president was more than eager last week to lecture us all on the true and perpetual villains behind America’s latest rampage involving guns.      In a long-winded harangue that made me wonder where his once-lauded oratorical gifts had vanished, Obama held forth on...(Read Full Article)